World Masters Orienteering Championships
World Masters Orienteering Championships are an annual official world championship event of the International Orienteering Federation for orienteering runners aged 35 and over.
The classes of competition are divided into women and men in five year age groups from W35 and M35 to W100 and M100 with a total of 28 classes.
The first championships were arranged 1996 in Murcia, Spain.
From 2018 onwards the competition programme includes Sprint, Middle distance and Long distance with qualifications runs before the final runs.
Initially the WMOC programme included only Long distance with 2 qualification runs. From WMOC 2008 in Portugal, the Sprint distance was added to the programme. From 2018 in Denmark, the Middle distance was added to the programme.Venues
| Year | Days | Location |
| 1996 | April 8–12 |  Murcia, Spain |
| 1997 | September 29 – October 4 |  Minnesota, USA |
| 1998 | July 1–5 |  Novy Bor, Czech Republic |
| 1999 | July 18–23 |  Aarhus, Denmark |
| 2000 | January 1–7 |  Feilding, New Zealand |
| 2001 | July 1–5 |  Nida, Lithuania |
| 2002 | October 6–11 |  Bendigo, Australia |
| 2003 | July 13–17 |  Halden, Norway |
| 2004 | July 3-10 |  Asiago, Italy |
| 2005 | July 22–31 |  Edmonton, Canada |
| 2006 | July 1–8 |  Wiener Neustadt, Austria |
| 2007 | July 7–14 |  Kuusamo, Finland |
| 2008 | June 28 – July 5 |  Marinha Grande, Portugal |
| 2009 | October 10–18 | Sydney, Australia |
| 2010 | July 31 – August 7 |  Neuchâtel, Switzerland |
| 2011 | July 1–8 |  Pécs, Hungary |
| 2012 | July 1–7 |  Bad Harzburg, Germany |
| 2013 | August 2–10 | Sestriere, Italy |
| 2014 | November 1–8 |  Porto Alegre, Brazil |
| 2015 | July 27 – August 1 |  Gothenburg, Sweden |
| 2016 | August 7–13 |  Tallinn, Estonia |
| 2017 | April 21–30 | Auckland, New Zealand |
| 2018 | July 7–13 | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2019 | July 5–12 |  Riga, Latvia |
| 2020 | August 7–15 |  Košice, Slovakia |
| 2021 | May 24–29 |  Kansai, Japan |
